Learning Path: Cloud Computing and App Deployment with AWS

Course details

Are you looking forward to develop or architect applications for AWS? Or do you want to learn how to design and architect cloud solutions? If yes, then go for this Learning Path.

Packt's Video Learning Path is a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery, and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow. Explore how millions of customers are currently leveraging AWS cloud products and solutions to build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability, and reliability.

AWS can be summarized as:

A Broad IT Infrastructure Platform

This Learning Path begins with an introduction to AWS. You will learn about Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) that offers you nearly infinite flexible compute power in the cloud. You will see how to compute options provided by EC2 such as database optimized instances, GPU instances, and Simple Storage Service (S3) which enables you to store nearly unlimited number of files in a low-cost object store. Next, you will be introduced to Amazon's Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) which provides you with a fully managed application load balancing service to manage your traffic. Then, you will learn to write, run, and automatically perform load-balancing of a Node.js based web API that uses all of these fully managed services to build a fully functional, fault-tolerant, and next-generation web scale application. Moving ahead, you will explore different textual search engines and learn how to run code instead of instances. Finally, you will learn about AWS Lambda and understand its functions and how to deploy them effectively.

By the end of this Learning Path, you will have a strong understanding of cloud computing with AWS and will be able to build and deploy applications in the cloud.

About the Author:

James Cross is a big data engineer and certified AWS solutions architect with a passion for data-driven applications. He's spent the last 3 to 5 years helping his clients to design and implement huge-scale, streaming big data platforms, Cloud-based analytics stacks, and serverless architectures. James is an AWS certified solutions architect with several years' experience designing and implementing solutions on this cloud platform. As CTO of Scout Solutions Ltd, he built a fully serverless set of API's and analytics stacks based around Lambda and Redshift.

Paulina Budzon is a certified AWS DevOps - Professional engineer, primarily interested in designing, building and maintaining highly available, scalable and resilient distributed web applications. She had started as a Web Developer and worked with technologies such as PHP, RoR, MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB. She has swiftly progressed her career, gaining wide knowledge of architectural aspects of web application. Thanks to her experience, Paulina offers a unique combination of understanding of both architectural and development sides of software engineering.